Charcoal and blue pen on transparent paper. Signed and dated in lower left. 121 x 114 cm. , the full sheet.
Preliminary drawing in same size for the painting "Die Fragen der Sphinx" (1984), today on loan at the Musée de Grenoble from an important corporate collection. [JS].
- Klapheck is renowned as the inventor and master of the "machine picture", which he sees as a mirror of human existence. - Exhibited together with the painting of the same title in the "Konrad Klapheck/Gustave Moreau" exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris in 2008. - While Klapheck's "super-representational" paintings fascinate with their maximum perfection, Klapheck's "preliminary drawings" are unique testimonies to the underlying, meticulous complex creative process. - Klapheck's drawings are the "witnesses of [his] struggle with their sweaty smell of desperate searching and groping" (K. Klapheck, 1982).